Mark I received this from Bugnet.
After you install or remove Norton Utilities for Windows 95, Norton
AntiVirus for Windows 95, or Norton Navigator, Microsoft reports that you
may receive the following error message when you restart Windows 95:
"Error loading C:\Windows\System\Setup.exe. You must reinstall Windows."
This problem can occur if Symantec's installation program cannot change the
Windows 95 shell to Windows Explorer after installing or removing a program,
and a system.ini file is present in the Windows folder. Microsoft's
solution: Restart the computer; when the "Starting Windows 95" message
appears, press the F8 key and choose Command Prompt Only. Open the
system.ini file in the Windows folder using any text editor (such as
edit.com). To use edit.com, type the following line:
edit c:\windows\system.ini
In the system.ini file, change the line that reads
Shell=C:\Windows\System\Setup.exe to Shell=Explorer.exe. Save the system.ini
file, close the editor, and restart your computer. Delete or rename the
system.ini file in the Windows folder to prevent the problem from recurring.
Cruise over to BugNet at http://www.bugnet.com.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 12:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Virus removal this confuses me because I've heard that
it's bad to install an AV program and expect it to clean your system if your
computer is infected prior to installation. Is this true or not? I
understand that the program scans your system when you install it (at least,
NAV does), but considering the software didn't just come out yesterday and
the signature files on the original disks aren't updated, doesn't that seem
to hold true? Also, for AV progs that put fingerprints on files and
directories to note any changes, if the file is already infected, it would
appear as normal to the program since that is how it appeared upon
installation, wouldn't it?
Mark Simmons
PCSOFT: http://nospin.com or [log in to unmask]
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